Red River Radio News
On May 5, the 41st Holocaust Remembrance Service of Northwest Louisiana will be hosted on the LSUS campus.
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Join Cliff this week as he and entomologist Dr. Beverly Burden collab for their annual joint episode, "The Birds and Bees". They will be taking your phone calls at 1-800-552-8502 so call in with your favorite bird or bug question!
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Airs Mon., April 8, 6 p.m. Shannon Johnston and Marcie Howard sit down with Marshall Fulgium, owner of Benton Martial Arts. He describes how he built his business into the fun-filled, family-oriented martial arts studio it is today.
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Thurs., April 4, 2024, at 6 p.m. On this “Call to Mind” special, we hear from people who have experienced homelessness about their experiences and challenges. We hear from people living in New York, Houston, and New Orleans.
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This week, hosts Shannon Johnston and Marci Howard have a conversation with Kim Jolley of Jolley Services, a cleaning services company. Jolley started her business with just a towel and a few supplies. She tells the story of how she built her business into the successful company that it is today.
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March 31, 2024, at 1 p.m. On this episode of Illuminations, host Ranae Moran revisits a conversation with Dr. Gary Habermas in which Dr. Habermas discusses the historic evidence of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Dr. Habermas is a Distinguished Research Professor of Apologetics and Philosophy at Liberty University School of Divinity. He has made the study of the resurrection of Jesus Christ his life’s work and is considered the foremost authority on the history of the resurrection. Dr. Habermas is the author of numerous books including “The Risen Jesus and Future Hope” and “The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus” with Mike Licona.
Cultural, Community, Information
April 18, 2024. Shreveport Little Theatre will soon present Jimmy Buffet's Escape to Margaritaville., Red River Radio's Mark Pizzolato talks with Daniel Moore, who stars as Tully Mars, a singer for the bar at the run-down hotel Margaritaville; Brittany Gay, who stars as Rachel, a vacationer at Margaritaville; and Jason Coffel, who performs as JD in the production.
Local Events
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Ages 19 and up. Free. No registration required. We prepare for the naturalization exam by practicing reading aloud, writing, and answering civics questions. Join anytime.
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Ages 19 and up. Free. No registration required. We practice our English skills by conversing, reading aloud, and building vocabulary. This group meets year-round and anyone can join anytime.
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Ages 19 and up. Free. Register through Eventbrite. Choose a recipe from the selected cookbook and make it. Then, bring it to the library Cookbook Club to share it with others!
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Ages 19 and up. Free. Register through Eventbrite. Create something truly outrageous and appalling and win prizes for the most heinous art. Enjoy making art without expectations and focus on the process and not the product.
News Feed
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San Antonio's immigrant resource center aids hundreds of thousands of asylum-seekers with food, shelter and legal help. Without immigration reform, officials worry the challenges will continue.
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The refrain of malign outside influence has been common from school and government authorities during this wave of pro-Palestinian protests. This concept of hijacked activism has a long history.
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Indiana has its first competitive gubernatorial primary in 20 years. U.S. Sen. Mike Braun leads the crowded field of Republicans, but polling shows a high percentage of voters are undecided.
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With Harvey Weinstein's 2020 sex crimes conviction being recently overturned in New York, sexual abuse hotlines are seeing a surge in calls.
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Officially, only one person has caught bird flu during the current outbreak among dairy cattle, but experts are hearing of others getting sick. The U.S. doesn't have an easy to way to detect cases.
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Tesla laid off hundreds of people. The company's supercharger network has been a striking success. So why did Elon Musk hit that team with devastating layoffs?
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Testimony continued in Donald Trump's criminal trial in New York. His lawyers tried to discredit a witness who represented the two women at the center of the allegations against the former president.
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In the new stunt-crammed romcom The Fall Guy, Ryan Gosling is a stuntman, and Emily Blunt is both his ex and his director.
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It's taken months of debate on the Hill, but Ukraine finally has the military assistance it's been seeking. After two years of fighting, military experts say the nation still faces a long road ahead.
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NPR's Juana Summers talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about biodegradable plastic, simulating growing crops on Mars, and how deer are disrupting caribou populations.
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